one; of the horned dinosaurs, monoceonius (see page 426) 



This skeleton was complete from the tip of the tail to the end of the beak. Even the tongue 



bones were preserved in position. 



ferry-boat. It was built upside down, 

 and when calked water-tight was turned 

 over and launched in the river near by. 

 This boat was capable of carrying ten 

 tons with safety (see page 411). 



As the river has a speed of four miles 

 per hour, we never intended to go up- 

 stream; so the boat was made on broad 

 lines to be carried down by the current, 

 its course directed by two great sweeps, 

 or oars 22 feet long, one at each end of 

 the boat, and nicely balanced on the gun- 

 wale, so that a man could push against it 

 with his entire strength. 



Supplied with a season's provisions, 



lumber for boxes, and plaster for encas- 

 ing bones, we began our fossil cruise 

 down a canyon that once echoed songs 

 of the "Bois Brule," for this river was at 

 one time the home of many fur-bear- 

 ing animals and within the Hudson Bay 

 Company territory. 



The first sixty miles of the river below 

 the town of Red Deer is locally known as 

 "the Canyon," where the speed of the 

 current is considerably more than four 

 miles per hour, but there are alternating 

 stretches of slow-moving water and rap- 

 ids at low water dangerous to rafts and 

 large boats. 



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